Orangictis Morales et al. 2001 (civet)

Mammalia - Carnivora - Viverridae

Full reference: J. Morales, M. Pickford, D. Soria and S. Fraile. 2001. New Viverrinae (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the basal Middle Miocene of Arrisdrift, Namibia. Palaeontologia africana 37:99-102

Parent taxon: Viverrinae according to J. Morales et al. 2001

See also Morales and Pickford 2011, Morlo et al. 2007 and Werdelin and Peigne 2010

Sister taxa: Civettictis, Semigenetta, Viverra, Viverricula

Subtaxa: Orangictis gariepensis

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Ecology: scansorial carnivore-insectivore

Distribution: found only at Arrisdrift (Miocene of Namibia)

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